Groovement

Presented by Agent J. Originally broadcast 24 Aug 2020 on Reform Radio.

Shaolin and I go way back, to a night we ran in Manchester called Rocksteady many years ago after bonding in a shop over my Fat City record bag. I'm super happy to present his latest mix. Shaolin Monkey Presents: Chamber 1 Mix 28 years in the making… For this mix I went back to my roots of DJing, of playing records, before the internet, before streaming and before music was so readily accessible. Back to when I was living in the Lake District and trying to scour local record shops for hip hop, funk, soul & breaks, digging for beats… searching for the perfect beat! I have loved hip hop since being a kid growing up in the Lakes, my mate’s older brothers would play Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Run DMC, NWA and Beastie Boys… all the classics and I felt like I connected into the wider world through this amazing art form so isolated in location but also so connected through this music… It was a form of escapism in a way… my soon to be generations version of PUNK – due to it being so rebellious, raw unrefined by society. One day I heard an album called “Enter the 36 Chambers” by a group called the Wu Tang Clan… That was they day when everything changed. The Wu wasn’t just sampling and looping soul and funk breaks. They were sampling Kung Fu Films! This was mind-blowing for me… and I knew I needed to be more than just a bystander, more than just a listener to this amazing culture and scene. From that moment on I started collecting records, I thought it can’t just be a handful of us around our village loving this music and I know if I start playing this music to other people they will love it! They just need to hear it! Thats when I knew I wanted to be a DJ. An archaeologist of music and records, to pass on my small amount of knowledge to the next kid who needed to be educated… to be initiated! And that’s how Shaolin Monkey began… for a love of Hip Hop and spreading the message. This mix is an homage to my earlier days of record collecting in hip hop and beats, a bunch of records that have been in my head and on my shelves for more than 20 years if not more.. But never had the time (or the ability/skills!) to blend together in the vision I had and they deserve… to do them justice enough to how much I hold them all in high regard. A lot of the records you will know, some you may not, some records you will love, maybe some you don’t, but every record on this mix is very important to me and I hold in very high regard and hopefully you will enjoy this as much as I did putting it together.. I hope I have done them justice. Enjoy and catch you in the 2nd Chamber... Shaolin Monkey

Mostly new music, recorded on my 40th birthday with a little help from Baby Groovement. Originally broadcast on Reform Radio 27th July 2020, find it here https://www.mixcloud.com/reformradio/groovement-27th-july-2020/ More info and buy links https://groovement.co.uk/2020/08/groovement-podcast-agent-j-look-up/ Pic: Potato Head Beach Club, Seminyak, by me

Originally broadcast on Reform Radio 29.6.20 Ty - Groovement Parts 1 & 2 Souleance - Aquarelle Vex Ruffin - I’m Still At It The Koreatown Oddity - Little Dominiques Nosebleed Part 1 feat. Sudan Archives Essa - Justice Vice Beats - Torn Ligament f. Napoleon Da Legend and 5Stylez Public Enemy - State of the Union (STFU) Run The Jewels - Ooh LA LA (Ft. Greg Nice and DJ Premier) Run The Jewels - Walking In The Snow Jyoti with Georgia Anne Muldrow - This Walk D Tiberio - Honey Whoarei - Tell Me (Heaven Maybe Certain) Whoarei - I Love Your Cookie The Isley Brothers - Between The Sheets Gallant - Bourbon Dubbul O & Pro P - Abomination Ft. Herrotics Dr. Dre Feat. Mary J. Blige - The Message Dr Who Dat? - Memories Dom Hz - Nowhere General Levy - Heat (xxxy vs swing ting refix) Swing Ting ft. Fox - Head Gone (Murlo Remix) Steve Spacek - Dollar Jimi Tenor - Sugar And Spice Misc. Jockey - Viva Le Batfunk ft Batfunk Naughty By Nature - Hip Hop Hooray Q-Tip - Breathe And Stop Onyx - Slam Rage Against the Machine - Bulls On Parade KinKai x Mecca:83 x Moo Latte - Glow Outkast - B.O.B Daisuke Tanabe - Artificial Sweetener Ghost Mutt - Oh Boy Oh Baby António Sanches - Pinta Manta DJ Shadow - The Mountain Will Fall S-Type - Gazelle S U R V I V E - High Rise Rustie - All Nite Rustie - Ginuwine - Pony (Rustie Rmx) EPROM - Ghost Hunter Busta Rhymes - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See (DJ Dynamite edit)

The Voodoo Black producer/DJ shares a set from the terrace from the sadly-missed Soundwave festival, which ended in 2018. Voodoo Black's debut LP, Sitting At The Table, is out now on Village Live Records.